The Trade Bulletin (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 12, 1907 Page: 5 of 20
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THE TRADE BULLETIN.
The only bids above the estimate
of the city engineer were those where
macadam base was specified.
By a vote of five to three the coun-
cil accepted the bid of J. E. Jones
^at $2.20.
The contract accepted provides for
Indian Territory rock asphalt. There
is to be a five-inch concrete base, a
three-fourths inch cushion and two
an done-half inches of asphalt. A
guarantee of five years is made. They
agree to commence work in 100 days
and to complete it promptly. Mr.
Jones is to use the material prepared
by the Overbrook Asphalt Co., of Ard-
more.
There is very great opposition to
the action of the council i nadopting
asphalt. As to what the result will
be, no one can safely predict. It may
be that some of the chief property
owners of the district to be paved will
fight it in the courts.
It appears that six of the council-
men, that 'being a clear amjority,
signed a written statement, on Aug-
ust 27, that they would pave with
brick. It seems this written state-
ment was made in order to prevent
the protesting of property owners
along the proposed paving district,
more especially non-resident owners
These men would agree to the cost
of brick paving, but not asphalt. Up-
on this signed statement of the coun-
cil men that they would consent only
to brick, the regular time for the pro-
test of property owners was allowed
to pass.
HOTEL LEE ANNEX.
Joseph Huckins has decided to have
the annex erected under the super-
vision of Mr. E. G. Remmers, of Okla-
homa City, instead of letting a gen-
eral contract. The first two stories
will be completed first and a tem-
porary roof placed so tnat they may
be occupied while the remainder of
the building is being completed. The
plans as drawn by architect J. W.
Hawk call for a building 60x140 feet,
5 stories, brick, Carthage stone trim,
marble, iron and steel,, fireproofing,
(system not decided), concrete floors
in basement, composition roof, metal
partitions, tiling, hard plaster, plastic
ornaments, electric fixtures, art, p'ate
and prism glass, bathtubs, wash-
stands, water closets, steam heating,
freight and passenger elevators.
Pawnee, O. T.—Special—The pro-
position to vote $15,000 water works
bonds for water worKs extension lost
at the election January 8th by 10
votes.
popular for building and monumental
work through the territory and, in
fact; all over the west. They are
equipped to give prompt attention r.o
all orders and make a specialty of
fine building work. Now that the
new state is entering the union under
such favorable circumstances we
ought to take a pride in using in the
buildings of the state a product of
the state. Red granite is a rare prod-
uct being found in only a lew states
of the union and in none of them is
there found as pretty a stone as is
produced from the quarries at Gran-
ite. Wherever the stone has been
introduced it has oeen much sought
after and in the future will do as
much, if not more, than any other
product of the state to advertise us.
O. K. CUT STONE WORKS.
NEW GUTHRIE HOTEL.
The contract for the construction-
work on the Hotel lone was let to H.
M. Fielding of Guthrie, whose bid was
$94,243. Six bids were received, as
follows: Kahn Re-enforced Concrete
Construction comifiny of Dertoit,
Mich., $90,584; H. M. Fielding of
Guthrie, $94,243; W. M. Cooper, $94,-
G39; Pillings Construction company
of Chicago, $98,985; Leaf-Green Con-
struction company of Chicago, $98,-
246; Tom O'Keefe of Oklahoma City;
$108,550. While the Kahn company-
submitted the lowest bid, the directors
decided that its system of construc-
tion would involve more delay than
avas desirable in this case, and the
contract was accordingly let to Mr.
Fielding, who is required to give $50,-
000 bond for the satisfactory per-
formance of the work.
The building is to be six stories in
height, the outer walls built of
pressed brick and trimmed with
either Oklahomo granite or Medford
stone. The lobby will have tiled
floors and will be finished in hard-
tvood. F. V. Newell of Chicago, the
architect who drew the plans for the
hotel will personally -superintend the
work of construction.
On the front cover will be found a
general view of the plant of the O. K.
Cut Stone Works, at Oklahoma City,
of which J. C. Powers is proprietor.
This is another one of the solid and
substantial institutions of the city, and
has done its full share towards push-
ing it to the front. The plant is one
of the largest of its kind in the west
and is equiped with the latest and
most improved machinery for cutting
and handling stone, and which is being
constantly added to. A new planer is
now being installed at an expense ot
$2,000. Mr. Powers is favorably known
in the building trades having furn-
ished the stone work on many of the
best buildings in the state and now has
in hand a number of big contracts
among which is the new seven story
office building of the Pioneer Tele-
phone & Telegraph company at Okla-
homa City.
The Frisco round house at the toot
of Robinson street, Oklahoma City,
has wonderfully increased its volume
of business and now employs regular-
ly about 100 men. Foreman James
Early states that his men handled
1,000 engines last month. Only re-
pair work is done at present. How-
ever, a construction department is a
probability of the near future.
Yukon, O. T.—Reported—The Rock
Island railroad has completed plans
for the construction of a dam and
lake one-half mile south of town.
The lake will cover about ten acres
and will furnish an inexhaustible sup-
ply of water for the Rock Island en -
gines. Work begins after the first ot
the year.
That no expense is to be spared in
making the new 7-story office build-
ing of the Pioneer Telephone & Tele-
graph Co., the finest in this part of
the country, is evidenced by the fact
that they have decided to install two
high speed elevators instead of one.
They will oe installed by tne Otis Ele-
vator company and will be fast elec-
tric elevators, 300 feet per minute
and have a capacity of 2,500 lbs. The
elevator equipment will thus be on a
par with any of the high modern of-
fice buildings in Kansas City or St.
Louis.
The Oklahoma Tile company have
completed three tile mantels and tile
wainscoting in the vestibule and tile
floor and bath room for Mr. DeWaide
on Fifteenth and Shartei; also tile
mantel for Mrs. Peebles, West Fif-
teenth. They also have on 'hand con-
tracts for 500 square feet for the Mer-
chants and Farmers' bank at Snyder,
the George Hale's building, Oklaho-
ma City; the Hales-Gross building,
Oklahoma City; the Ziegler building,
Oklahoma City, and the Stephenson
building at Enid.
We want to call special attention
to the ad of the Red Mountain Gran-
ite Co., of Granite, Okla., on another
page of this issue. This company
quarries granite which has become so
A new corporation to be known am
the German-American Oil and Gas
company has been organized at Oche-
lata, I. T., with a capital of $100,000.
The officers are: G. C. Clarke, pres-
ident; W. N. Sill, vice president; Geo.
A. O'Connell, secretary-treasurer.
Guthrie, O. T.—Reported—C. M.
Bradley of Muskogee has made a prop-
osition to the constitutional conven-
tion to donate a capitol site in the
center of the new state and subscribe
$250,000 toward a capitol building.
One of the provisions is that the build-
ing is to be located remote from any
present townsite.
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Fowler, Ward M. The Trade Bulletin (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 12, 1907, newspaper, January 12, 1907; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc127928/m1/5/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.